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This. There was a moment in the second half today when the ball was played out to Lambert on the left wing, and had it been someone with pace who could run past the defence we would have had a great opportunity to break and get in behind them. For all his plus points, Lambert slows down our attacks far too much and allows defenders to get back and regain their shape before we get the chance to stretch them.

For the last half an hour today I didn't even realise he was on the pitch. I thought he had gone off for Puncheon. That's how anonymous he was.

Because it was all over the papers this morning that he had promised he wouldn't, that's why.

If he was a striker I would be inclined to agree with you. He's not, he's a RB - therefore it was not such a glaring miss when you take that into account.

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say I reckon it's time we dropped Lambert. He's been off the boil for quite a while now and when he doesn't play well, not only do we struggle to score, we struggle to create any decent chances at all.

Not really. It was a bouncing ball and he did well to hit it as sweetly as he did, but for a LB I wouldn't say it was a 'sitter'.

Absolutely inevitable from the moment the game kicked off. Good play from Saints, good possession - waste a couple of chances and then concede a goal like that from the only person it could possibly have been. Is anybody else slightly worried that for the last 3 games we haven't really looked capable of scoring?

Come on Saints - get a goal FFS!...

It f**king had to be that chimp-faced c*ck didn't it!

Punch on for AL

It's time to wheel out the big guns...

Full time at the Hawthorns. How the fook do Wigan manage this every year?

Is it nun time yet?

Come on Saints! Got to score while we are so dominant or it's for nothing!

Get in Baggies!

Ooooh. So close!

The game must be being shown live on some foreign channel somewhere, because there's loads of really good quality streams on Wiziwig today. http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=200595&part=sports

Just for a change, he's threatening to quit snooker... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/snooker/22377103 I love the guy and think he's a brilliant entertainer. But FFS Ronnie, either p*ss or get off the pot. You keep threatening to quit, so if you're going to then do it, otherwise just shut up. If I was another of the players listening to this I would probably find it pretty insulting.

Give me a little bit more time and I will come up with some more to offer up, but for right now I'll simply stick with the one album that completely blew me away upon listening and began the process of removing my musical blinkers: Portishead - Dummy. As a teenager I was single-mindedly all about the rave scene. I was a budding DJ and had an attitude that I would only listen to anything over 130 bpm with a pumping beat. The first time I came across Portishead was in the middle of a Radio 1 essential mix by Laurent Garnier in 1994 that I copied from a mate of mine. Right in amongst his trademark driving techno, he dropped Numb. At first I thought "What the hell? This isn't techno! What's he doing?" but as I listened and absorbed the eerie beauty of Beth Gibbons' voice, and the dark, menacing rumble of the production, I had a eureka moment. I checked the tracklisting in DJ mag and went out and bought the album, and before I had even finished listening to it, I knew that something had awoken inside me and I had taken my first steps on to a journey of musical discovery. This album to this day still gives me goosebumps whenever I listen to it (after 19 years!) and it's one of those albums that demands you listen from beginning to end. I was fortunate enough to go and see them live when they reformed for their Third album in 2008, and it was one of the most incredible things I have ever witnessed. My GF and me both said afterwards we felt like we had been crying for the last two hours, it was such an emotional experience.

Are you absolutely sure about that ?

It does make me giggle now, thinking back to the banners the QPR fans were holding up saying 'Come and save us Harry' prior to his appointment. Be careful what you wish for.

Shocked and saddened. I remember him very well from my early years going to the Dell. He and Russell Osman must have been one of the highest-scoring CB pairings ever seen in the top division of English football. RIP Kevin.

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It's thanks to Boruc that we only lost 3-0 yesterday. If we had KD or Gazzaniga in goal it could have been 6 or 7.

I cannot argue that Gaston deserved to go. Whether or not he hit Long in the face is perhaps debatable, but he definitely swung his arm deliberately and therefore deserved a red card IMO. I am, however, extremely disappointed in the way that Long rolled around holding his face like he had been shot. Absolutely pathetic simulation and he should have got at least a yellow card for that, given his multiple attempts to foul Gaston in the build-up to the incident.